People Chapter 1 Flashcards
powerful banking family that ruled Florence during the Renaissance, had branch offices throughout Italy and the major cities of Europe
Medici Family
weathiest European of his time, dictator of Florence, used banking powers to hold office
Cosimo Medici
ruled as dictator made it look like an elected gov.
Lorenzo the Magnificent (de Medici)
looked down on the art and literature in the middle ages
Renaissance scholars (in general)
inspiration from Rome
italian scholars
studied ancient latin manuscripts
western scholars
from constantinple, fled to rome with greek manuscripts when the turks conquered constantinople
christian scholars
wrote the Courtier that taught how to be a Renaissance Man
Baldassare Castiglione
made artsists build a famous art collection, skilled in politics,in the ruling family of Ferrara, patron of art
Isabella d’Este
scluptor, poet, architect and painter; used realistic style
Michelangelo Buonarroti
relaistic style that revealed the personality; made the statue of David in the late 1460s, frist European sculptor of a free standing nude since ancient times
Donatello
discovered things in science to make his paintings more realistic, was a painter, sculptor, inventor and scientist, Mona Lisa and Last Supper, famous paintings
Leonardo DeVinci
studied Michelangelo and Leonardos works, favorite subject was the mondana and child using gentle and calm expresstions, famous for persepctive; filled pope julias the II library with painitngs- most famous one school of athens,
Raphael Sanzio
frist women artist to gain international reputation
Sofonisba Anguissola
trained with father and painted strong heroic women
Artemisia GENTILESCHI
wrote in Vernacular language
Dante
earliest most fluential humanists; wrote sonets
Franseco Patriarch
wrote Decameron-series of realistic, sometimes off color stories, presents tragic nd common views of life
Geovanni Boccacio
exchanged sonets with michelangelo and helped Castiglione with the Courtier
Vittoria Colonna